According to TAVANIR, this program called “Power of Hope”, was aimed to change the attitudes of household consumers towards the proper use of energy resources and consequently protect the environment.

The Energy Ministry started the implementation of the mentioned program in mid-August 2020.

In late August 2020, Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian had announced that the Power of Hope program was expected to reduce the country’s electricity consumption by 10 percent.

“This program will be implemented to both reward low-consuming subscribers and to encourage others to consume less and it is expected to reduce power consumption by 10 percent,” Ardakanian said in a press conference on the occasion of the Government Week (August 23-29, 2020).

The minister noted that according to a cabinet decision, all the subscribers that cooperated well with the Energy Ministry’s consumption management programs this summer are to be awarded.

“To do so, home subscribers were divided into three categories, which include low-consumers, normal-consumers, and high-consumers,” he said.

He noted that two programs have been prepared for high-consuming subscribers so that by implementing these plans, these subscribers would also join the low-consumer group.

The official described the first program as a training course to teach consumption management methods with the help of knowledge-based companies and start-ups, and said: “Start-up companies will be formed in this field and will help us optimize the consumption of high-consuming subscribers by providing simple solutions.”

The second plan is to install solar panels on the roofs of high-consuming subscribers’ houses so that such subscribers would meet their electricity needs by installing these PV stations, Ardakanian explained.

Managing electricity consumption by various sectors including households, agriculture, and industry, and reducing the consumption of fossil fuels used by power plants has become one of the major priorities for the government in recent years.

Earlier, the Energy Ministry Spokesman for the electricity sector Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi had told Tehran Times that the ministry’s specialists and experts defined different packages for different sectors to manage the country’s electricity consumption.

Rajabi Mashhadi said that since the households account for the majority of the electricity consumption, the main part of the Energy Ministry’s program was focused on encouraging the households in metropolitan areas like Tehran to reduce their consumption in peak hours.

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The US produced 101.0 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) of energy and consumed 100.2 quads last year, the EIA said.

With this result, energy production last year exceeded energy consumption in the US on an annual basis for the first time since 1957, it added.

Both energy production and consumption hit record highs in 2018, according to the EIA. However, in 2019, US energy production grew by 5.7%, while energy consumption decreased by 0.9% compared to 2018.

“The growth is largely a result of increases in crude oil and natural gas production from hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling,” the statement said.

“In 2019, US crude oil and natural gas plant liquids production totaled 31.8 quads, and natural gas production equaled 34.9 quads. Both values are record highs in the US, surpassing their previous highs set in 2018,” it added.

Renewable energy production in the US remained fairly constant between 2018 and 2019, growing by about 0.1 quad, the EIA said.

US coal production declined in 2019 for the third year in a row, falling by 1.1 quads to 14.3 quads, marking its lowest point since 1974, the administration added.

And, US nuclear electric power production has remained steady at nearly 8 quads for the past two decades, according to the EIA.

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Officials say Iran needs to expand power generating capacity by 5,000 MW annually, or 20,000 MW till 2022 to meet rising demand at home and expand its footprint in the regional energy market.

The Energy Ministry has devised plans to increase the generating capacity of renewables, by 5,000 MW in the same period.

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